Bug 87320

Summary:	disconnect alert could be eliminated
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Alan <asgarcia>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	jakub.januszkiewicz, KaiUweBroulik2, rap
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
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Description Alan 2004-08-17 00:36:29 UTC

Version:           0.8.4 (using KDE KDE 3.3.0)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

Instead of warning/alerting when a we have been disconnected from a server (i.e MSN, Jabber, Etc.), Kopete could just silently start a loop that tries to reconnect automatically every minute or so. The ideal solution would be to set an option that lets the user configure whether he/she wants to turn this feature on or off, and, if off, every how often should the reconnect attempt repeat. This becomes usefull with buggy servers, connections and networks.

Comment 1 Matt Rogers 2004-08-17 00:45:25 UTC

some protocols do this already

Comment 2 José JORGE 2005-06-13 22:49:23 UTC

Maybe some do, but with jabber, it doesn't (version 0.10.2)

Comment 3 Jakub Januszkiewicz 2007-04-11 12:59:57 UTC

I second that.
I get this popup with the error message for Jabber accounts, it's irritating.
Having an option to automatically reconnect and/or show the error message (possibly through the KDE notification system, so it can be turned into a passive popup etc) would be ideal.
KDE 3.5.6, Kopete 0.12.4.

Comment 4 Ramon Antonio Parada (brainsqueezer) 2008-07-21 14:51:36 UTC

I think kopete should do the same way as skype client does.

System tray icon should have 3 states (connected, disconnected, connecting) instead of two (connected, disconnected). Connecting icon would be displayed when any of the active accounts is trying to connect.

Maybe a non intrusive notification could be added in the bottom (Service messages?) but not a new dialog. This not really needed because of with the icon you are already informed that there are some connection problems.

Comment 5 Ramon Antonio Parada (brainsqueezer) 2008-07-22 13:53:02 UTC

Related to: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97353

Comment 6 Kai Uwe Broulik 2011-03-16 19:46:28 UTC

Kopete now indeed does try to re-connect a few times but whenever it starts and this fails (today my Internet went down and then EVERY connect attempt failed) every protocol gives his s**t about this, so after like 15 minutes you have 30 connection failure notifications in your history (a ICQ and MSN account). Notify is good but it shouldn‘t bother you all the time. If it succeded once and then it drops again THEN another notification would be okay but not if it didn‘t work in the forst place.

Comment 7 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:27:31 UTC

Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.

Please migrate to another solution, e.g. for Jabber a possibility is Kaidan, for Matrix a candidate is NeoChat.